Preamble

The House met at Eleven o'clock

PRAYERS

[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]

MEMBERS SWORN

Mr. Speaker: May I remind right hon. and hon. Members taking their Oaths that I intend to follow the pattern of yesterday, calling first on Front Benchers and Privy Councillors from both sides, and then hon. Members in whatever order they care to assemble.
I propose to suspend the Sitting at one o'clock, and to come back again at two o'clock.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Roy Mason, esquire, Barnsley.

Eustace George Willis, esquire, Edinburgh, East.

Right honourable Reginald Maudling, Barnet.

Right honourable George Russell Strauss, Lambeth, Vauxhall.

Right honourable Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Grantham.

Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Q.C., Ipswich.

Right honourable Duncan Edwin Sandys, Wandsworth, Streatham.

Right honourable John Selwyn Brook Lloyd, C.H., C.B.E., T.D., Q.C., Wirral.

Right honourable Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson, O.B.E., T.D., Q.C., Warwick and Leamington.

Robert Chichester-Clark, esquire, Londonderry.

Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan, esquire, D.S.O., M.C., Howden.

Right honourable Sir Keith Sinjohn Joseph, baronet, Leeds, North-East.

Victor Francis Yates, esquire, Birmingham, Ladywood.

Marcus Lipton, esquire, C.B.E., Lambeth, Brixton.

Eric Graham Varley, esquire, Chesterfield.

Commander Harry Pursey, Kingston-upon-Hull, East.

Thomas George Bradley, esquire, Leicester, North-East.

George Jeger, esquire, Goole.

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, esquire, Birmingham, Sparkbrook.

Sir Gerard Spencer Summers, Aylesbury.

John Anthony Kershaw, esquire, M.C., Stroud.

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, esquire, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., T.D., Abingdon.

Dame Joan Helen Vickers, D.B.E., Plymouth, Devonport.

Peter McLay Mills, esquire, Torrington.

Paul Lancelot Hawkins, esquire, South-West Norfolk.

Walter Harris Loveys, esquire, Chichester.

Michael Aubrey Hamilton, esquire, Salisbury.

Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, esquire, commonly called the Earl of Dalkeith, Edinburgh, North.

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, esquire, East Aberdeenshire.

Rafton John Pounder, esquire, Belfast, South.

Michael Norman Shaw, esquire, Scarborough and Whitby.

John Julius Wells, esquire, Maidstone.

Hector Seymour Peter Monro, esquire, Dumfries.

Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith, esquire, North Angus and Mearns.

Richard Kelley, esquire, Don Valley.

Carol Alfred Johnson, esquire, C.B.E., Lewisham, South.

Alfred Davies Devonsher Broughton, esquire, Batley and Morley.

William Geraint Oliver Morgan, esquire, Denbigh.

Christopher John Salter Rowland, esquire, Meriden.

James Hamilton, esquire, commonly called the Marquess of Hamilton, Fermanagh and S. Tyrone.

Richard Phipps Hornby, esquire, Tonbridge.

Ronald Joseph Ledger, esquire, Romford.

William Samuel Hilton, esquire, Bethnal Green.

Alan Lee Williams, esquire, Hornchurch.

Charles John Addison Doughty, esquire, Q.C., East Surrey.

John Lindsay Eric Smith, esquire, Cities of London and Westminster.

Malcolm MacPherson, esquire, M.B.E., Stirling and Falkirk Burghs.

Eric Ogden, esquire, Liverpool, West Derby.

Timothy Peter Geoffrey Kitson, esquire, Richmond, Yorks.

Norman Atkinson, esquire, Tottenham.

Colonel Sir Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre, New Forest.

Sir John Edward Gilmour, baronet, D.S.O., T.D., East Fife.

Sir John Anthony Langford-Holt, Shrewsbury.

Raymond Fletcher, esquire, Ilkeston.

Sir Clive Bossom, baronet, commonly called the honourable Sir Clive Bossom, baronet, Leominster.

Julian Errington Ridsdale, esquire, Harwich.

Ernest Fernyhough, esquire, Jarrow.

11.31 a.m.

Mr. Speaker: I suspend the Sitting until twelve o'clock.

12 noon.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Charles Leslie Hale, esquire, Oldham, West.

Andrew Matthew William Faulds, esquire, Smethwick.

Captain Walter Elliot, D.S.C., Carshalton.

Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, esquire, commonly called the honourable Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, Glasgow, Hillhead.

Dennis Murray Walters, esquire, Westbury.

Keith Monin Stainton, esquire, Sudbury and Woodbridge.

Sir Esme Tatton Cecil Brinton, Kidderminster.

Hector Samuel James Hughes, esquire, Q.C., Aberdeen, North.

George Colin Jackson, esquire, Brighouse and Spenborough.

Iorwerth Rhys Thomas, esquire, Rhondda, West.

Gwilym Elfed Davies, esquire, Rhondda, East.

Albert Clifford Williams, esquire, Abertillery.

Albert James Murray, esquire, Gravesend.

Desmond Louis Donnelly, esquire, Pembroke.

Dennis Harry Hobden, esquire, Brighton, Kemptown.

Kenneth Lewis, esquire, Rutland and Stamford.

John Horner, esquire, Oldbury and Halesowen.

Alan John Williams, esquire, Swansea, West.

Richard Body, esquire, Holland and Boston.

Joyce Shore Butler, Wood Green.

Wing-Commander Sir Eric Edward Bullus, Wembley, North.

Dafydd Elystan Morgan, esquire, Cardigan.

William Henry Edwards, esquire, Merioneth.

Sir Cyril Osborne, Louth.

12.19 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: The Sitting is suspended until 12.45 p.m.

12.45 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Fred Blackburn, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde.

Richard Scurrah Wainwright, esquire, Colne Valley.

Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, esquire, Woking.

Harry Philip Heggie Gourlay, esquire, Kirkcaldy Burghs.

Right honourable Arthur Woodburn, Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire.

Charles Mapp, esquire, Oldham, East.

William Stratton Mills, esquire, Belfast, North.

John Dennis Concannon, esquire, Mansfield.

Richard Reader Harris, esquire, Heston and Isleworth.

Leslie Maurice Lever, esquire, Manchester, Ardwick.

Evelyn Mansfield King, esquire, South Dorset.

William Edward Garrett, esquire, Wallsend.

John Wynne William Peyton, esquire, Yeovil.

Henry Maitland Clark, esquire, North Antrim.

William Hamling, esquire, Woolwich, West.

Jennie Lee, Cannock.

1.0 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: The Sitting is suspended until 2 p.m.

2 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Freda Kunzlen Corbet, Camberwell, Peckham.

Arthur William John Lewis, esquire, West Ham, North.

Lena May Jeger, Holborn and St. Pancras, South.

Brian Kevin O'Malley, esquire, Rotherham.

Ronald Howard Lewis, esquire, Carlisle.

Thomas Michael Jopling, esquire, Westmorland.

James Gregor MacKenzie, esquire, Rutherglen.

Edward Leadbitter, esquire, The Hartlepools.

James McCulloch York Dickens, esquire, Lewisham, West.

2.17 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: The Sitting is suspended until 2.30 p.m.

2.30 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Ian Robert Maxwell esquire, Buckingham.

Right honourable Richard Frederick Wood, Bridlington.

Kenelm Simon Digby Wingfield Digby, esquire, T.D., West Dorset.

Sir Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key, Hastings.

Joan Mary Quennell, M.B.E., Petersfield.

John Edward Maginnis, esquire, Armagh.

Geoffrey Audus Nicholson Hirst, esquire, T.D., Shipley.

Ian Mikardo, esquire, Poplar.

Joseph Hiley, esquire, Pudsey.

David Russell Johnston, esquire, Inverness.

Right honourable Iain Norman Macleod, Enfield, West.

2.45 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: Order. I suspend the Sitting until 3.15 p.m.

3.15 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, esquire, Barking.

Stanley Raymond McMaster, esquire, Belfast, East.

Arthur Montague Frank Palmer, esquire, Bristol, Central.

Robert Lever Howarth, esquire, Bolton, East.

3.28 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: The Sitting is suspended until 4 p.m.

4 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, esquire, Bosworth.

Alice Cullen, Glasgow, Gorbals.

James Dempsey, esquire, Coatbridge and Airdrie.

Norman Harold Lever, esquire, Manchester, Cheetham.

Arthur Davidson, esquire, Accrington.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tomorrow at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock.—[Mr. Harper.]

Adjourned accordingly at a quarter past Four o'clock.